it's monday, august 10th. this morning, dangerous skies. s with a weekend midair collision over the hudson an accident waiting to happen? new questions as crews return to murky waters looking for bodies and mechanicage. deadly storms pounding asia while a tropical storm zeros in on hawaii. and manson's followers, 40 years after his cult's infamous murder spree, should the years after his cult's infamous murder spree, should the killerses go free? captions paid for by abc, inc. good monday morning. divers will be back in the hudson looking for two more victims from the midair collision of a small plane and

sightseeing helicopter. >> it has torn families apart. three members of a pennsylvania family and several friends visiting from italy among the victims. they're piecing together how it happened and jay burkett reports from hoboken, new jersey. >> reporter: divers pulled bodies and parts of bodies from the swirling currents of the hudson river. and the army corps of engineers recovered an enormous mass of mangled metal and fiberglass that was once a million dollar helicopter. >> this radar data -- >> reporter: safety board investigators have pinpointed the precise altitude and time of the crash. the helicopter had just taken off on a 12-minute sightseeing tour. the plane identical to this one was apparently merging into the same airspace. the collision ripped off the rotor from the chopper and a wing off the airplane. >> the blade sort of chopped off the back half then chopped off another half and the two back pieces went under the river then

the main -- where the people were went just dove-diced right down. no spinning, just went right down. >> reporter: both pilots were experienced and legally certified. neither aircraft had black box data recorders but investigators are finding their most important clues in what they already have. >> in this case we actually have more witnesses, more video, more photography and the radar tapes that will provide information here that you might not get away from control zone like we have in new york. >> reporter: experts say this investigation may be less challenging simply because of where it happened. off the shores of new york and new jersey with so many eyewitnesses. m.j. burkett, abc news, hoboken, new jersey. it took place in crystal clear skies. and it happened at about 1100 feet, a level at which aircraft are not monitored by air traffic control. helicopter reporter john delp

giorno is up there almost every day. >> i don't want to use the word nervous but nerve-racking. a midair collision is an airman's worst nightmare because the result is a crippled aircraft and an aircraft that's uncontrollable. it's a roadway in the sky. that's the way it works out air. it's below 1,100 feet in that exclusion zone. self-announced and it's an honor system really. >> the helicopter pilot had over 3,100 hours flying helicopters and the pilot of the small plane had owned it for over a decade. be sure to stay with us for "good morning america." the head of the ntsb will be here with the latest on the investigation. that's this morning starting at 7:00. we are following a developing story in iraq this morning where a devastating wave of bombings has left dozens dead. near the northern city of mosul two truck bombs targeted a shiite neighborhood. at least 25 people were killed

and more than 70 hurt. and in baghdad, two car bombs targeting construction workers killed at least 16 people and left more than 80 injured. no group has claimed responsibility, but the attacks appear to be the work of al qaeda. president obama is in guadalajara, mexico for a summit of north american leaders. topping the agenda is the growing health threat from the h1n1. emily schmichmidt joins us with preview. >> reporter: the next flu season is just around the corner. that's why today president obama will talk about how to fight the flu in the country where it began. president barack obama's summit with mexican and canadian leaders marks his first meeting with the united states' closest neighbors. that proximity means the h1n1 swine flu virus tops the summit agenda. the outbreak, which is now a global man demic, started in mexico. >> i think everybody recognizes that h1n1 is going to be a challenge for all of us and

there will be people who are getting sick in the fall and die. >> reporter: shared borders will also prompt talks about drug cartels. the violence leads to dozens of killings in mexico each month and cartels are spreading north into the u.s. president obama has said he backs mexican president calderon's fight against the drug war. >> we have responsibilities to reduce the trafficking of guns into the south that help strengthen these cartels. and the flows of money and money laundering. >> reporter: also on the agenda an unsettled economy induced trucking dispute. the spring president obama signed a bill which blocked mexican trucks in entering the country because of safety concerns. in return mexico impose the $2 billion on tariffs on u.s. goods. >> allowing the trucking into our country will diminish safety. >> reporter: this is mr. obama's second presidential trip to mexico. the two-day summit will wrap up

this afternoon. jeremy? >> all right, emily schmidt in washington, thanks. swine flu is a concern for the military. 51 troops have been diagnosed with it and another 71 are currently in isolation suspected of having the virus. a deadly typhoon slammed into japan's west coast killing at least a dozen. a different storm battered taiwan yesterday. floodwaters eroded the land under a hotel causing it to topple over. hundreds of people evacuated. it was taiwan's worst flooding in half a century and in china, the storm chased about a million people from their homes. raging rivers and landslides have caught hundreds of towns in remote regions. hawaii is under a tropical storm watch as felicia draws closer. residents have been stocking up emergency essentials like batteries and flashlights. forecasters say it could dump up to a foot of rain in some places. beaches are already closing because of rough surf. now for this morning's weather from around the nation,

powerful storms from pennsylvania to kansas with hail, 70-mile-an-hour winds and a chance of tornadoes. showers and thunderstorms in new england and along the gulf coast. drought conditions continues in south texas and heat advisories from philly to d.c. 80s in chicago and detroit. 106 in phoenix. 100 in sacramento. cooler in the pacific northwest. just 68 for seattle. 76 for portland. there is a hearing this morning in los angeles in the battle over michael jackson's multi-million dollar estate. jackson's mother, katherine, wants a share of the authority over the estate now held by two special administrators. the judge is also being asked to approve a $60 million movie deal which would include jackson's final rehearsals before his death. coming up on "america this morning," two members of charles manson's murderous cult are begging to go free. have they served enough time for their crimes?

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welcome back. these are the latest headlines from abc news. divers get back into the hudson river this morning searching for two more victims of saturday's midair collision. a small plane and sightseeing helicopter. dozens of people are dead in iraq after a series of early morning bombings. attackers targeted the northern city of mosul and the southwest part of baghdad. and concerns about the swine flu are topping the agenda today as president obama meets with the leaders of mexico and canada during a one-day summit in guadalajara. it was 40 years ago that charles manson and his followers shocked the country with one of the most gruesome and bizarre mass murders in history. >> now two of the women who killed for the cult leader are begging to go free. here's david muir. >> reporter: they were criming that horrified an entire nation, hollywood actress sharon tate then eight months pregnant was stabbed to death murdered along with the four others in the home she shared with roman polanski.

the next day another well-known couple murdered. the labiancas all at the hands of a small group led by charles manson. the murders he had told them would ignite an apocalyptic race war. >> these murders would never have happened if it had not been for charles manson. >> reporter: for twisted than his vision was his ability to turn fire people, three of them young women into eager killers who laughed when they were put on trial. ♪ now as the 40th anniversary of the murders approaches there are fresh calls from family and friends for the release of two of manson's followers, susan atkins and leslie van houghton. it was atkins who stabbed tate to death. she described it at a parole hearing years ago. >> she asked me to let her baby live. >> what did you say to her? >> i told her i didn't have any

mercy for her. >> reporter: atkins is now dying of cancer and she is asking to be released so she can die in hospice. leslie have pleading for it too. she wish she had been there when sharon tate was there. she was there the next night stabbing rosemary labianca 16 times. >> the older i get, the harder it is. i took away all that life. >> reporter: director john waters began a friendship with van houghton while writing a piece for "rolling stone" now publicly arguing for her parole. >> she has apologized many, many times. she is the poster girl for california prison, i think. i mean she went in a complete lunatic and came out if she ever does an incredibly mature woman. >> reporter: but a retired prosecutor whose job it was to argue against their release at 60 parole haergsz made that same argument to us. >> do they deserve to be outside in normal society?

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good morning. august 10th. they have for joining us -- thank you so much for joining us. i'm joce sterman >> you're not getting married, are you? >> no, i'm staying. >> megan pringle is on her honeymoon. was it hot yesterday? >> i was dying. >> hottest day of the year. >> we'll talk about that along with kim's traffic. first the top stories we're following this morning. [indiscernnible] >> well, today hot temps won't be the only heated discussion. senator ben cardin set to host a town hall meeting on health care. >> i think everybody recognizes that jaich is going to be a --

h1n1 is going to be a challenge for all of us. people will be getting sick in the fall and die. >> a shot of reality begins today nationwide. find out how hospitals in maryland plan to administer trials for the h1n1 flu vaccine. in new york, officials now shift their focus from rescue to recovery after that mid-air collision over the hudson river saturday afternoon. again, good morning to you. i'm jamie costello. >> i'm joce sterman. right now it's 74 degrees at 4:59. very early for me. we're going to start with a look at weather. meteorologist justin berk is up early today. >> i hope your air conditioning is working. you'll need it. if you don't like yesterday you'll hate today. weather will be hotter, more sticky and that all combines to be much less comfortable. let's just recap what it looked like yesterday. big storm complex blew through from central pennsylvania with winds gusting close to 100 miles per hour and storms rolling across the central part of the keystone state. they clipped to the nortt